Volume 1: Mixed in the Bandit's Lair Chapter 8: Rescue with a Stroke of Hand

  Xu Fei listened to the conversation between the two drunkards and vaguely understood something. He didn't directly turn his head to look, but instead turned his body slightly to take a peek, then turned back to smile and ask the waiter in a low voice: "Who are these two drunkards? Why were they drinking when I arrived, and what time is it now that they're still drinking?"

  The little second said in a low voice: "How did the boss think of asking about these two people? The big one is called Niu Da, and the slightly thinner one is called Gou San. There's also a Zhu Er in between. When you came, the three of them were eating here, and they went out for a while, who knows what bad things they did? It's not even noon yet, and these two people are back here drinking again. But that Zhu Er has gone who-knows-where?"

  Xu Fei smiled and continued to ask: "What are these three people doing? Do you know where they live?"

  The young shop assistant glanced at the boss, who didn't notice him, and then whispered to Xu Fei: "These three men used to be hoodlums in town, but now they've defected to the Japanese, so they're acting recklessly. However, these three have never had a home since childhood and are currently living in a small temple in the north of town. But boss, you mustn't offend them - it's said that Mo Sifen, the head of the security squad, is their backer."

  "Let's go! I asked you to stay far away, we can't afford to mess with this kind of scoundrel." Xufei pretended to be afraid and whispered to the little servant, then turned around and hurriedly left the main hall as if he was really scared.

  As soon as Xu Fei left the inn, he identified the direction and quickly headed north towards the town. Although he had only heard a few sentences of conversation between the two thugs in the hall, those few words clearly revealed what they were doing. Xu Fei had always hated human traffickers who kidnapped and sold women and children, and when he heard that among the three men, only Zhu Er was guarding a girl, he couldn't wait to go and rescue her.

  Gushan Town is not too big, and the settlements in the mountain valleys are relatively narrow and long. The town is shaped like a north-south strip, so Xu Fei didn't walk for several minutes before reaching the outermost part of Gushan Town. He looked around the small temple and found no households nearby, only some disorderly trees and tall weeds within hundreds of meters. A small road leading to the temple was also overgrown with weeds.

  "Huff...hmm...hmm...beep..."

  Inside the small temple, loud snoring sounds echoed far and wide, Xu Fei's mouth twitched as he almost burst out laughing. There was only one person left in the temple, Zhu Er, and this snore definitely couldn't be made by a girl.

  He took advantage of the opportunity to tiptoe quickly towards the temple gate, and through the open gate he saw a stout big man sleeping soundly on a pile of dry grass, while not far from him was a flower-faced little girl tied to a standing pillar.

  Xu Fei took out the dagger given by the system from space, just like the one marked above. The dagger was emitting a cold light and looked very sharp. Xu Fei, who was preparing to kill someone for the first time, felt a bit tense, and his right hand holding the dagger was shaking slightly.

  But he saw the little girl tied up tightly, and in his heart, he secretly pulled out a dagger and crept into the small temple. At this moment, Zhu Er was still sleeping soundly, eating something delicious in his dreams, with his mouth watering and drooling.

  Xu Fei walked up to Zhu Er, and swept the dagger across his body a few times. Xu Fei didn't have much experience with killing people, this morning's elimination of that bandit was purely because the bandit had turned around carelessly by himself. But now he had to take the initiative to kill someone, he didn't know whether to start from the neck or stab the heart.

  "Hmm... beef is big, does it come with pig's trotters?"

  Xu Fei was hesitating about what to do with the killer when Zhu Er, who was sleeping, felt someone beside him and thought it was Niu Da coming back. He opened his blurry eyes and asked.

  "Pfft!"

  Xu Fei saw Zhu Er wake up and hastily stabbed the dagger into Zhu Er's chest.

  "Hmm!......"

  Zhu Ermao's eyes widened as he stared at Xu Fei, his clarity of mind before death making him realize that the person standing in front of him was not one of his two brothers. A sharp dagger had been thrust into his heart, and within a few short seconds, he struggled with painful despair in his eyes until he met King Yan.

  "Huh?"

  Xu Fei was not frightened by Zhu Er's corpse-like appearance after killing him for the first time. He pulled out his knife and was about to hide the body when he unexpectedly heard the system remind him that he had leveled up.

  He hastily poured his consciousness into the system to confirm the upgrade, and immediately a surge of energy began to run through his Eight Extraordinary Meridians. Amidst the clattering sounds that echoed in his mind, Xu Fei suddenly felt himself filled with power.

  He couldn't help but open the system again and throw his consciousness in to take a look, which was the reason for his exclamation. At this time, his information in the system had already changed, and he felt extremely happy when he looked at his own information.

  Xu Fei: Male, twenty-one years old, height 1.75 meters, weight 70 kilograms.

  Special Ability: Super Strong Memory

  Spouse: None

  Cultivation Level (Next level: Consolidating Foundation): Qi Refining Completion.

  Status: Commoner.

  Next level requires 14.6/20 merit points (killing one evil bandit gives 3 merit points, killing one evil thug gives 3 merit points).

  Attributes: None.

  Magic: None.

  Weight: 0.3 tons.

  Speed: 20 meters per second.

  Magic: 6 (The value of magic and merit is equal.)

  Exchangeable materials: None (Benevolent points are materialized, but the position is not enough)

  Can enhance subordinate abilities: None (Merit point conversion injection modification, level is not enough)

  System Reward: (Insufficient Level)

  System Space (Special Upgrade): Unlimited storage and retrieval of goods according to the cultivator's power. Currently stored: a set of coarse linen clothes, a sharp dagger, two small gold bars (totaling 100g), twenty-nine silver coins, one hundred copper plates, a bottle of Super Yunnan Baiyao spray, five kilograms of fragrant beef jerky, ten pancakes, a water bag, and a tourist tent.

  "Is this an upgrade? 300 kilograms of strength, alas, still no magic!"

  Xu Fei muttered to himself in a low voice, then made a few swift and fierce gestures with his dagger. Only after he had fully focused his energy did he discover that he now possessed 300 kilograms of strength. This filled him with excitement, and even more so, he was astonished by the "Killing Enemy Exchange System" that his master had given him. To think that previously, despite being quite well-trained, he only had 60 kilograms of strength - this sudden increase in power by five times left him beaming with joy.

  Xu Fei, with increased strength, lifted Zhu Er and threw him behind the mud Bodhisattva in the temple. He then gathered up the bloody hay from the haystack and prepared to take the girl down from the pillar.